Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
